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Long-term improvements in cognitive performance through computer-assisted cognitive training: a pilot study in a residential home for older people
- Authors:
- GUNTHER V. K., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 7(3), May 2003, pp.200-206.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The aim of the present pilot study was to investigate the effects of computer-assisted cognitive training on aging-associated memory deficits, information processing speed, learning, and interference tendency in older people. Residents of a home for older people (15 women, four men; mean age 83.5; range 75-91) participated in a 14-week computer-assisted cognitive training programme. The Nurnberg Aging Inventory and the California Verbal Learning Test were administered prior to the programme, immediately after the program and after a period of five months to assess the effectiveness of the cognitive training. After the cognitive training programme there were significant improvements in primary working memory and also secondary working memory (for verbal and visual stimuli), on parameters of information processing speed, learning and interference tendency. Improvements in the last two cognitive parameters were maintained five months after completion of the training programme. The present study indicates that computerized cognitive training programs can be used in older people to achieve long-term improvements in some important aspects of fluid intelligence. It is suggested that computers could be employed more extensively to prevent and treat cognitive deficits in older people.
Memory clinics: a potential 'one stop shop' for services
- Author:
- BEESE Rachael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 8(2), March 2000, pp.35-37.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Reviews current research on the role of memory clinics in dementia care, arguing that they are well placed to develop a more comprehensive and holistic service for people with dementia and their carers.
Remembrance days
- Author:
- FRANCIS Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.10.92, 1992, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the work of some SSDs who are training staff in reminiscence work to improve their services for elderly people.
Memory assessment service for the early identification and care of people with dementia: commissioning guide
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CLINICAL EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Memory assessment services offer a responsive service to aid the early identification of dementia, and include a full range of assessment, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitation services. Memory assessment services ensure an integrated approach to the care of people with dementia and the support of their carers, in partnership with local healthcare, social care and voluntary organisations, and have been shown to significantly improve the quality of life of carers and people with dementia. This commissioning guide provides support for the local implementation of NICE clinical guidelines through commissioning, and is a resource to help health professionals in England to commission an effective memory assessment service for the early identification and care of people with dementia. The clinical guideline covers clinical and cost effectiveness in detail and underpins the content of this guide.
The past in the present: using reminiscence in health and social care
- Author:
- GIBSON Faith
- Publisher:
- Health Professions Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 336p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
This book elucidates how reminiscence can be used as a dynamic tool for staff development, improving the delivery of care by and skills of direct care staff. The author combines theory and practical approaches to help clients ensure life satisfaction and successful aging whether working with them individually, as a couple, or in a small group. The text shows how people with dementia can benefit from using reminiscence.
Memories are made of this
- Author:
- PAYNE David
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 24.6.98, 1998, p.17.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on how nurses can help memory loss in Alzheimer's patients through the use of memory clinics.
Memory maintenance groups in the community
- Author:
- GREGORY Susan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59(1), January 1996, pp.25-26.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Describes the use of memory maintenance groups for people in the early stages of dementia who are living at home. The aims of the groups changed to meet client need.
Dementia care
- Editors:
- ADAMS Trevor, MANTHORPE Jill
- Publisher:
- Arnold
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 260p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
With the increasing population of older people, the number of people suffering from dementia is growing. It affects whole families and often it is the family who have to become the carer for the person with dementia. Allied to this increasing clinical and social problem comes the development of dementia care studies, as MSc courses and as modules within nursing and social work undergraduate and postgraduate courses. This book is designed as a textbook for these modules and emphasizes the importance of developing evidence-based practice. It provides an understanding of the theoretical basis for practice as well as practical solutions of care.
The Cleveland alzheimer's managed care demonstration: outcomes after 12 months of implementation
- Authors:
- BASS David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 43(1), February 2003, pp.73-85.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Evaluates the effects of integrating Alzheimer's Association care consultation service with health care services offered by a large managed care system. The primary hypothesis is that Association care consultation will decrease service utilization, increase satisfaction with managed care, and decrease caregiver depression and care-related strain. Secondary modifying-effects hypotheses posit that the effects of the intervention will be intensified when patients have not received a firm dementia diagnosis, patients have more severe memory problems, caregivers use other Association services in tandem with care consultation, and caregivers are not patients' spouses.
Care-giving in dementia: research and applications: volume 2
- Editors:
- MIESEN Bere M.L., JONES Gemma M.M.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 391p.,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Part 1 looks at models and theories and contains chapters on: the concept of personhood and its relevance for a new culture of dementia care; the dementias in a psychodynamic perspective; culture and dementia; memory, emotion and dementia; and awareness in dementia patients and family grieving - a practical perspective. Part 2 is on interventions and contains papers on: institutional perspectives on practical management of frontal lobe dementia; psychomotor group therapy for demented patients in the nursing home; communicating with severely demented patients using Snoezelen; and psychosocial treatment for demented patients. Part 3 is on interventions in the community and includes papers on: the homeostatis model and dementia; supporting informal caregivers of demented people; and activation of care-giver coping processes through professional support. Part 4 looks at interventions for the family and includes chapters on: attachment, loss and coping in caring for a dementing spouse; understanding the social context of a family caring for a dementing person; the burden on family carers; and cultural dimensions of care-giving. Part 5 examines environment, education and ethics and contains chapters on: five experiments in the institutional organisation of care for demented people; education about normal forgetfulness and dementia; ethical issues; and care-giving in dementia and the challenge of attachment.